Harry Potter And The Northern Football Club

What's the difference between Manchester City and a Harry Potter movie?

Both have big budgets.

Both have a cast of stars.

Both are eagerly awaited by expectant fans.

The difference?

Well one is guaranteed to be successful and full of magic.

And the other we don't yet know about.

Fe Fi Fo Fum

Yesterday afternoon I was here drinking a pint of this.

After a while my lover and I got chatting to a man at a nearby table.

Turns out he is a season ticket holder for Manchester City.

All was going well. We talked about the new owners, the money the club has to spend, Sparky's Spark (or rather lack of), Gareth Barry, Robhino, Eastlands and of course how the ManUre have no fans living in Manchester.

But then he said a terrible thing.

For when I said how lucky they were to be likely to sign Tevez, he suggested his only use will be as a Troll at the ground to keep the kids in order!

You can so go off people.

Road To Nowhere

Is this the way to Amarillo?

Or Mandalay?

No - it's the road to nowhere - apparently!

A Bit Of Spice

A funny old footballing day.

With some fairly lack lustre performances I gather.

Fulham unable to beat off Swansea.

Pompey and Man City slogging it out with Portsmouth just managing to pull a couple out of the bag on the back of a determination to show support for the decision to get rid of Adams.

Chelsea in a scoreless draw at half time with lowly Watford.

And Leicester made me hold my breath for a while this afternoon until they equalised against Swindon.

Lets hope the indian takeaway I'm having for my supper has a bit more spice.

Hey Big Spenders

Despite expectations, Manchester City were not the highest spending club in the transfer window.

It was in fact Tottenham, who spent 48 million.

Liverpool, Everton, Fulham, Sunderland,Middlesborough and West Brom spent nothing.

A total of 160 million pounds was spent but if you take out the two big spenders, the rest who spent only paid out an average of just over 5 million each.

Of course Man City would probably have spent more had they not been the subject of the odd high profile rejection.

What does Georgina think of all this?

Well like many girls I like a man who is prepared to splash a bit of cash.

Georgina In Wonderland

It's been snowing.

And I'm just luvin' it girls.

Waking up to a white world is just fantastic.

It's like Wonderland

So much fun to be had.

Let's hope it brings a smile to the face of a certain Man City fan who's been feeling more blue than usual.

He needs to get himself a bit of this.

I won't be revealing my tattoo for a few days.

Why?

Well we wouldn't want the sun melting all that snow would we.

Conspiracy Theories

Make up your mind 'Arry.

Are you going to field your weakest team today?

Or your strongest team?

Maybe he has so many injuries in the squad they are the same thing anyway.

Or maybe it is a smoke and mirrors move to disguise some cunning plan.

And talking of conspiracy theories - what about Ulrika winning Celebrity Big Brother?

Nominated consistently by her housemates. Long odds of 12/1 to win (compared to Verne who was 5/1). And very very irritating.

So who on earth was voting for her?

What is the demographic that explains that?

Want to know my theory?

OK.

Terry Christian (my favourite to win) whom she was up against in the final vote just happens to be a mad bonkers ManUre fan. Famous for it.

So everyone who dislikes the ManUre goes into the Ulrika camp.

Reinforced by Ulrika's Sven connection with their arch rivals Manchester City.

And Ulrika's connection with football generally.

In other words, it was football that made the difference.

She's been planning it for years.

And no-one saw it coming.

You heard it here first.

That's Entertainment

OK OK.

I get what it is about Alan Shearer.

Did you watch SportAid last night? I thought it was great entertainment.

And yes, much as it pains me I have to say I suddenly realised why everyone goes on about AS.

I have never seen him play before but he has got something a bit special.

I suspected there must me more to him than the shallow drivel he delivers on MOTD.

And talking of entertainment, what a week it was last week.

Multi-billionaires suddenly appearing on the footballing landscape, like knights in shining armour coming to rescue Manchester City. Drama at the eleventh hour as the transfer window closed. Nail biting moments when we all wondered if England would even manage to score against Andorra (which apparently has the same population as Berwick - on - Tweed).

Today seems something of a slow news day in comparison.

I wonder how long that will last.

Painting The Town Red? Or Blue?

We don't need no Premiership.

We don't need no Champion's League.

We've got - the Johnstone Paint Trophy competition!

This will be the first time we have ever had the opportunity to compete as it is only open to Leagues One and Two.

And of course, as we know, this is the first time EVER we have been outside the top two tiers.

So I'm looking forward to our first match against Hartlepool tomorrow night.

Let's hope we can play some "Dulux" football and move a step closer to claiming the "Crown".

Yes alright I know that was lame. But in truth it is hard to get excited about anything called a paint trophy isn't it?

Far more exciting is the drama emerging around Mr Berbatov. Following Man City's late bid today I wonder what he will decide.

Imagine Fergie's face if Sparky wins the day.

Ouch!